References: Cai‚ N‚ Helwege‚ J & Warga‚ A 2007‚ ‘Underpricing in the corporate bond market’‚ Review of Financial Studies‚ vol. 20‚ no. 6‚ pp. 2021-2046.
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1. What major requirements do client expect from their portfolio managers? We have two major requirements of a Portfolio Manager: 1. The ability to derive above average returns for a given risk class (large risk-adjusted returns); and 2. The ability to completely diversify the portfolio to eliminate all unsystematic risk. The client expect from their portfolio managers are to help them manage their money in less time. Most of the client requires a portfolio manager who can preserve
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Abstract Though Investment is a science deals with the study of capital market and then plan accordingly yet the study of investor ’s emotion has a major role to play with. It is not sufficient to analyze Efficient Market Hypothesis and its drawbacks rather one has to go for a behavioral explanation of investor ’s irrationality in a consistent and correlated manner. Thus comes Behavioral Finance‚ the study of the influence of psychology on the behavior of financial practitioners and the subsequent
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CASE I THE RISING EURO HAMMERS AUTO PARTS MANUFACTURERS Udo Pfeiffer‚ the CEO of SMS Elotherm‚ a German manufacturer of machine tools to engineer crankshafts for cars‚ signed a deal in late November 2004‚ to supply the U.S. operations of DaimlerChrysler with $1.5 million worth of machines. The machines would be manufactured in Germany and exported to the United States. When the deal was signed‚ Pfeiffer calculated that at the agreed price‚ the machines would yield a profit of €30‚000
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CHAPTER 8 Strategic Change: Implementing Strategies to Build and Develop a Company 0LEARNING OBJECTIVES 10. Describe the main steps involved in the strategic change process. 20. Demonstrate how to analyze a company’s set of businesses from a portfolio of competences perspective 30. Review the advantages and risks of implementing strategy through (1) Internal new ventures‚ (2) acquisitions‚ and (3) strategic alliances 40. Discuss how to limit the risks associated with internal new ventures‚
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Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 was passed to: Establish auditing standards. 4) In general‚ what is changing as you read down the left hand side of a balance sheet? The assets are becoming less liquid. 5) Early in the history of finance‚ an important issue was: Liquidity 6) When shareholder A sells its Ford stock to shareholder B in the secondary market‚ such as on the New York Stock Exchange‚ how much money is received by Ford? Ford will receive nothing. 7) The appropriate
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“Case: Tianjin Plastics” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Course Advanced Corporate Finance Students Fatin Azear Jos Kusters Maaike van der Steen Case: Tianjin Plastics This assignment considers the case of Tianjin Plastics. Pat Johnson‚ project finance analyst for Maple Energy (U.S.-based international power plant developer)‚ has to make a recommendation regarding the financial viability of the Tianjin Plastics power plant project in China. The recommendation would require a final evaluation of
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Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Front cover imagery The Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Ramform Sterling seismic vessel‚ which conducts seismic surveys for BP. Left image: the vessel working in the Ceduna Basin‚ Australia. Centre image: the vessel tows 12 streamers (pictured) behind it‚ each 8km long and equipped with hydrophones to pick up echoes from
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UVA-F-1489 Version 2.0 GAINESBORO MACHINE TOOLS CORPORATION In mid-September 2005‚ Ashley Swenson‚ chief financial officer (CFO) of Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation‚ paced the floor of her Minnesota office. She needed to submit a recommendation to Gainesboro’s board of directors regarding the company’s dividend policy‚ which had been the subject of an ongoing debate among the firm’s senior managers. Compounding her problem was the uncertainty surrounding the recent impact of Hurricane
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Faculty of Management Technology Accounting & Financial Control Department Corporate Finance for BI FINC505 Chapter -1- The Role of Managerial Finance Problem Sheet -1P1 True/False 1. Financial managers actively manage the financial affairs of many types of business— financial and non-financial‚ private and public‚ for-profit and not-for-profit. 2. In partnerships‚ owners have unlimited liability and may have to cover debts of other less financially sound partners. 3. The board of directors
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